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Post by Wight witch on Jul 12, 2006 10:47:44 GMT
I thought it was absolutly fab perfect amount of cheese!!!!! Loved that the darleks were saying exterminate whilst the cybermen were saying delete!!!!
I completly blubbed thrrough the ending it was just so fab!!!!!
Catherine Tate better not be any more than a christmas addition charater I would hate her to be the new partner but her a a one off has great potential
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Post by tenacious on Jul 12, 2006 13:50:15 GMT
Totally agree with you, and thank God for the Internet and techies, cause otherwise it'd be a hell of a wait to ever get to see and with all the webistes I go to spiolers are just unavoidable.
Whew, poor Rose .... other than that. NEXT season beckons and I love that you guys have that Christmas special thing, great tradition.
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Post by fenris on Dec 4, 2006 21:01:59 GMT
It's a small world. A long-standing friend and work colleague told me this morning that over the weekend he was watching the Parallel Worlds programme that was part of BBC4's Science-Fiction Britannia season, and one of the talking heads was Tom MacRae, writer of the 'Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel' two-parter from Doctor Who earlier this year. My friend recognised him as someone who'd worked in the same office as us for two years, over a decade ago! Here's a link to Tom's entry on Wikipedia, which I suspect he may have written himself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_MacRae. Interestingly, it claims that he was 'the creator of As If and Mile High' and so far I haven't found any evidence on line to support either claim (plus, who would actually want to admit they were responsible for Mile High?). Some background: I like to think that I'm a relatively laid back, relaxed individual who isn't easy to rile or upset. It's fair to say that very little gets on my nerves. My philosophy is that life's too short to let yourself get affected by small, petty, everyday things, etc. I also try to think well of my fellow man. God knows I've got my flaws, so what gives me the right to criticize others? But that said, I can honest say that Tom Macrae was The Most Annoying Person I've Ever Met In My Life. And it wasn't just me - everybody (in an office of nearly fifty people) thought so too. Now I treat others the way I'd like to be treated myself, so I was never anything less than cordial and polite to Tom (usually through gritted teeth and while internally counting to ten), but he was so bad that on one occasion, my aforementioned friend (who is seriously one of the nicest guys you could ever meet) got so p***ed off with Tom's behaviour and antics that he challenged him to step outside for a fight. Tom's clearly doing well for himself, and I sincerely wish him further success in the future - but I can honestly say that if I spotted him walking down the street towards me, I'd duck into the nearest shop until he went past. |
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Post by rwctlc1107 on Dec 4, 2006 21:52:14 GMT
Here's a link to Tom's entry on Wikipedia, which I suspect he may have written himself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_MacRae. Interestingly, it claims that he was 'the creator of As If and Mile High' and so far I haven't found any evidence on line to support either claim (plus, who would actually want to admit they were responsible for Mile High?). LOL on the mile high thing!! They show that on BBC America and I have on occasion attempted to watch it and can find absolutely no redeeming value to the show or reason to it other than to show people having sex on airplanes. Tina |
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Post by fenris on Dec 18, 2006 20:17:31 GMT
One thing that I found slightly disappointing about last year's Who Xmas Special, 'The Christmas Invasion', was that the killer robot Santas and the lethal spinning Xmas tree in Rose's mother's flat didn't seem to have anything to do with the alien warriors who appeared over London in their giant hovering spaceship.
Instead, I got the impression that they (the Santas and the tree) had been included by writer Russell T. Davies purely in order to justify the story being a Christmas Special. The closest thing to an explanation for their presence that was provided in the episode itself was the Doctor's remark that the Santas were "pilot fish" - opportunist savagers hoping to pick up a few spoils before the invasion began.
Well - as I'm sure most of you know already - the robot Santas are back in this year's Who Christmas Special, 'The Runaway Bride.' Maybe this time we'll learn more about them.
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Post by rwctlc1107 on Dec 23, 2006 12:26:06 GMT
So the scifi channel just aired the Doomsday episode last nite for the season finale. Can I jsut tell you I started to cry when the Doctor and Rose had their goodbye. It was so good!! When do they new episodes start airing in the UK? OR have they already? I know we are behind you guys but not that far behind. I may have to go looking for episodes online because I dont know if I will be able to wait!
Tina
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Post by fenris on Dec 23, 2006 15:32:51 GMT
When do they new episodes start airing in the UK? The third series of New Who hasn't been screened in the UK yet. We're getting the hour-long special 'The Runaway Bride' on Christmas Day, and I believe the third series follows in March next year. |
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Post by fenris on Dec 26, 2006 10:16:30 GMT
Watched 'The Runaway Bride' this morning, having taped it yesterday. Really liked it, though it had it's flaws (Spoiler Warning: don't read any further if you haven't yet seen it).
The taxi/Tardis chase sequence was amazing - a crowd-pleasing setpiece that the makers of Original Who could only have dreamt of putting on the screen. And I thought Catherine Tate was simply brilliant as Donna, exactly the kind of no-nonsense, Timelord-slapping woman that the Doctor needed to pull him out of his post-Rose funk. One thing in particular that this episode really lacked was that Donna didn't get to punch the alien-spider Empress in the face. Really hope that we haven't seen the last of Donna - I would love next year's Xmas special to begin with the Doctor arriving in the middle of a crisis, only to find Donna already in the thick of it, taking charge and kicking alien backside.
On the down side, there was some very dodgy science and even dodgier plotholes (so Torchwood burrowed a pit all the way down to the Earth's core under the Thames Barrier. Err... why, exactly?). And once again, as in last year's 'Christmas Invasion', the robot Santas and their lethal Christmas trees were only included because the story was an Xmas special. They could have been left out and substituted by non-descript, off-the-peg android henchmen, and the story would have been identical.
And am I the only one who found the post-credit preview for The Sarah-Jane Adventures more exciting than those for New Who Series Three and the Torchwood finale?
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Post by rwctlc1107 on Dec 27, 2006 17:15:40 GMT
I am downloading it now!! Interestingly, I jsut read an article today talking about how the SciFi Channel will be showing the new episodes in the US This summer. Apparently it is the fast turn around for showing the series in the US ever. I guess it shows you how popular the show really is.
Tina
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Post by orokiah on Mar 26, 2007 20:05:31 GMT
So... Not to get into board on board stuff, but which Hexen was it who stirred up a hornet's nest over at Digital Spy with this thread? 'Fess up.  Good as Jemima would have been as a companion, I'm really looking forward to seeing Martha's debut this weekend. |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 26, 2007 20:13:32 GMT
hmmm. That's so funny how it completely disintergrates in to an argument about forum ettiquete.
I'm looking forward to seeing Martha as well. Towards the end Rose started to really annoy me and so I'm looking forward to seeing someone with a different dynamic with the doctor.
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Post by orokiah on Mar 27, 2007 19:26:48 GMT
Yeah, DS is such a large community that perfectly sensible discussions do have a habit of spiralling completely and nastily out of control! looking forward to seeing Martha as well. Towards the end Rose started to really annoy me and so I'm looking forward to seeing someone with a different dynamic with the doctor. Oh YES, I totally agree - Rose irritated me something rotten in the latter half of series two. Bit too much making eyes at the Doc, which really annoyed me. Popular as it is Rose/Doctor shippiness is not my thing. Any suggestion of Hot Tardis Lovin' makes me a bit queasy actually. Not that Rose's exit wasn't sad...but a change of face and a new doctor/companion dynamic definitely helps keep the show fresh. |
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Post by fenris on Mar 28, 2007 18:28:21 GMT
I never liked Rose - I always thought she was a sulky, self-obsessed little chav. The fact that New Who's younger audience were clearly supposed to identify with her is truly depressing. Not the mention that the idea of the Doctor being romantically interested in her was just so wrong. He's several hundred years old and she was a teenager - do you really want the Doctor to be portrayed as a dirty old man perving after young girls? Yuck.
I was actually disappointed that Rose wasn't killed off at the end of the second season. Russell T. Davies lost his nerve there, methinks.
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Post by fenris on Apr 2, 2007 19:44:01 GMT
I thought 'Smith & Jones', the first episode of the third season, managed to juggle quite a few balls without dropping them - just. Predominately this story was about the introduction of new companion Martha, and in that respect it was much more accomplished than it's first season equivalent 'Rose'. But the episode also managed to include an entire hospital being transported to the Moon, and the debut of a new alien race. Phew!
For me, it was space-faring rhinos the Judoon who stole the show. Initially presented as the bad guys, the revelation that they're actually a freelance intergalactic police force who take their 'zero tolerance' approach to crime very seriously, and are looking for the real villain, was well handled. I actually laughed out loud as the Judoon - with all their highly-advanced alien technology - indicated which humans they'd eliminated as suspects by drawing crosses on their hands with marker pens. Sometimes the simpliest solutions are the best, I guess. And the scene which had Martha subjected to a 'full body scan' (oo-er) which proved negative, and promptly being given a compensation claim form by the Judoon leader, was just wonderful.
My only quibbles are that it was all a bit rushed, I'm already sick of Martha's family, the potentially-world-destroying subplot was both unnecessary and ridiculous (Mankind almost wiped out by a cranked-up MRI scanner?!), and it's obvious that the forced 'Saxon' references are going to become very tiresome over the next twelve weeks.
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Post by fenris on Apr 3, 2007 21:30:23 GMT
The article below appeared on the BBC News site on Sunday, the day after 'Smith & Jones' was broadcast on 31/03/07. Be mindful of that...
DOCTOR WHO RATINGS DISASTER
By Rolf Piloa
Entertainment reporter, BBC News
BBC chiefs awoke red-faced this morning to the news that an average of less than 4 million viewers tuned in to catch the first episode of the third series of their flagship Saturday-night show. The figure is the lowest that the show has ever received in its 34 year history.
Questions are now being asked about the future of the series which began its re-vamped run in 2005 with over 10 million viewers. The blow comes at a crucial time as the BBC struggles to maintain it's hold on audiences in the multi-channel age.
Doctor Who bosses Julie Gardiner and Russell T Davies were said to be 'shocked, saddened and surprised' by the news with Davies insisting that 'the show must go on'. A statement from BBC Director General Mark Thomas's office backed Davies claiming that 'the BBC is fully committed to Doctor Who', however insiders at BBC Wales where the show is made, are not so optimistic: 'If the ratings don't pick up by the end of April the BBC will end up looking like fools - they'll have no choice but to pull it from the Saturday night slot' said an unnamed source.
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